The French worker : autobiographies from the early industrial era /

This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions...

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Altres autors: Traugott, Mark
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
francès
Publicat: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1993.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501238
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Sumari:This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions, hardships, and reversals of ordinary people struggling to gain a measure of respectability. The workers' livelihoods are diverse: chair.
Descripció de l’ítem:Translated from the French.
Descripció física:1 online resource (xi, 382 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780520912908
052091290X
0585082405
9780585082400
0520079310
0520079329
9780520079328